Simultaneous Determination of Reference Free-Stream Temperature and Convective Heat Transfer Coefficient

It is very important to determine reference temperature when convective temperature because it should be used to calculate the temperature potential. This paper deals with the development of a new method that can determine heat transfer coefficient and reference free stream temperature simultaneously, based on transient heat transfer experiments with using two narrow band thermo-tropic liquid crystals (TLC's). The method is validated through error analysis in terms of the random uncertainties in the measured temperatures. It is shown how the uncertainties in heat transfer coefficient and free stream temperature can be reduced. The general method described in this paper is applicable to many heat transfer models with unknown free stream temperature.

Authors:

• Giho Jeong
• Sooin Jeong
• Kuisoon Kim

Keywords:

• Heat transfer coefficient
• Thermo-tropic LiquidCrystal (TLC)
• Free stream temperature.

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